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LACMA's Latin American Art galleries reopened in July 2008 after several years renovation. The Latin American collection includes pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, Modern, and contemporary works. Many recent additions to the collection were financed by sales of works from an 1,800 piece holding of 20th century Mexican art compiled by dealer-collectors [[Bernard Lewin|Bernard and Edith Lewin]] and given to the museum in 1997.<ref name="LatimesLatinJuly262008"/>

 

 

The museum's pre-Columbian collection began in the 1980s with the first installment of a 570-piece gift from Southern California collector [[Constance McCormick Fearing]] and the purchase of about 200 pieces from L.A. businessman [[Proctor Stafford]]. The holdings recently jumped from about 1,800 to 2,500 objects with a gift of Colombian ceramics from [[Camilla Chandler Frost]], a LACMA trustee and the sister of [[Otis Chandler]], former ''Los Angeles Times'' publisher, and [[Stephen Munoz-Kramer|Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer]] of Atlanta, whose family built the collection.<ref name="LatimesLatinJuly262008"/> A sizable portion of LACMA's pre-Columbian collection was excavated from burial chambers in Colima, [[Nayarit]] and other regions around Jalisco in modern-day Mexico.<ref name="LatimesLatinAug12008"/> LACMA boasts one of the largest collections of [[Latin American art]] due to the generous donation of more than 2,000 works of art by [[Bernard Lewin]] and his wife Edith Lewin in 1996. In 2007 the museum signed an agreement with the Fundación Cisneros for a loan of 25 colonial-style works, later extended until 2017.<ref name="Spreading the riches"/>

==Programs==

In 1966 Maurice Tuchman, then curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, introduced the Art and Technology (A&T) program. Within the program, artists like [[Robert Irwin (artist)|Robert Irwin]] and [[James Turrell]] were placed, for example, at the [[Garrett AiResearch|Garrett Corporation]], to conduct research into perception.<ref>Randy Kennedy (December 9, 2013), [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/art-and-technology-together-again-at-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art/ Art and Technology, Together Again, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211012749/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/art-and-technology-together-again-at-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art/ |date=December 11, 2013 }} ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> The program yielded an exhibition that ran at LACMA and traveled to [[Expo '70]] in Osaka, Japan.<ref>David Ng (December 10, 2013), [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-lacma-art-technology-program-20131210,0,7309800.story#axzz2nD5XkpJv LACMA resurrects art and technology program, teams with Google] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140211064526/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-lacma-art-technology-program-20131210,0,7309800.story#axzz2nD5XkpJv |date=February 11, 2014 }} ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref> It also contributed to the development of the [[Light and Space]] movement.

 

==Management==